To close a fellow human being in your heart compels more respect than attending 1000 Christmas Masses.
I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there.
At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
I never brought it up when I coached, but I have close ties at Ohio State. Unfortunately, I even have a graduate degree from there.
On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.
It takes a while to get a movie together, and they don't start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.
Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.
Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs.
I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.
I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke.
The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.
When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.
Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.
I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.
When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you're earning - well, that's interesting, that everyone knows what you make.
To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.
